Rachel Dowle

Written 2 posts

Head of Content Design & Strategy, mygov.scot

Accessibility and public sector websites

23rd September 2019

Kevin White, Head of Accessibility with the Scottish Government’s Office of the Chief Designer, explains what the legislation means if you’re a public body and what you can do to meet the requirements. What is accessibility? Accessibility describes a quality of a thing, whether a website, building or cooker. An accessible product or service is…

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Supporting Scotland’s businesses

11th September 2015

Over the last 100 days, we’ve been finalising what’s needed to close the Scottish Business Portal and move the website’s content and tools on to mygov.scot. The portal (business.scotland.gov.uk) was originally designed to bring business service and support information into one place – pulling content via an API from partner websites like Business Gateway, Scottish Enterprise,…

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